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Selections for Limerick – May 27th 2022
5.10: BEECHWOOD WINNIE – EW – (SEAN O’KEEFFE/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 5.40: GIN ON LIME (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.10: CORNERKOVA (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.40: CLUAN DARA – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/JOHN RYAN) 7.10: SIBERIAN PRINCE (JACK KENNEDY/NOEL MEADE) 7.40: MONEY HEIST (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 8.10: ASK CORY (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD)
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Selections for Fairyhouse – May 27th 2022
5.20: RECURRENT DREAM (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 5.50: JAAFEL – EW – (DAN KING (7)/DENIS HOGAN) 6.20: BROADHURST (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN) 6.50: SAN ANDREAS (HUGH HORGAN (7)/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 7.20: CHERRY BLOOM (BILLY LEE/GILLIAN SCOTT) 7.50: CNODIAN – EW – (NATHAN CROSSE (3)/WILLIE MCCREERY) 8.20: KARKIYNA (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH)
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The GAA’s poor relations
When a ‘Back Door’ system was first introduced to hurling in 1997, aside from the usual and expected negative, entrenched, old-fashioned mindsets declaring it the ruination of hurling as we knew it, the other fascinating factor was the fixtures it threw up. In that sense, the meeting of Tipperary and Down. As a contest, of […]
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Selections for Limerick – May 26th 2022
4.50: BIG JIM DWYER – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/EMMET MULLINS) 5.25: TINGARRAN EXPRESS – EW – (BRIAN HAYES/PHILIP FENTON) 6.00: GOOD BYE MILAN – EW – (SHANE O’CALLAGHAN (7)/SEAMUS BRADDISH) 6.35: INFORAPENNY (RICKY DOYLE/MARK FAHEY) 7.10: ITWASFATE (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 7.45: DALILEO – EW – (SHANE FENELON (7)/JOHN HANLON) 8.20: WE HAD IT ALL […]
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Selections for Wexford – May 25th 2022
5.15: KING KAL (BRIAN HAYES/COLM MURPHY) 5.45: HURRICANE GEORGIE (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 6.15: MULLINS CROSS – EW – (SEAN O’KEEFFE/PAUL NOLAN) 6.45: MONTEL GLORY – EW – (NIALL MOORE (7)/PHILIP FENTON) 7.15: THE BOSSES OSCAR (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 7.45: TOP BASSSANTA (CONOR MAXWELL/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 8.20: AHEAD OF THE POSSE – EW – (JOEY DUNNE (7)/GAVIN […]
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Selections for Gowran Park – May 24th 2022
4.50: TOOSO – EW – (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 5.20: MOE SEDWAY (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 5.50: SHOW OF STARS (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 6.20: MARHABBA ASHMAYNE (BILLY LEE/KEN CONDON) 6.50: GATSBY CAP – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/PADDY HAYES) 7.20: THE BOG BANK – EW – (JAMES RYAN (7)/TOM MCCOURT) 7.50: COUMSHINGAUN – EW – (WAYNE LORDAN/KEVIN COLEMAN) […]
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Selections for Punchestown – May 24th 2022
1.20: FEMALE APPROACH – EW – (EOIN WALSH (5)/NOEL MEADE) 1.55: FRONTLINE WORKER (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.25: LUCKY NUMBER – EW – (BARRY BROWNE/OLIVER MCKIERNAN) 2.55: JOHANNA YEATS – EW – (AMBROSE MCCURTIN (3)/JOHN JOE WALSH) 3.25: APPIAN WAY – EW – (BRYAN COOPER/CHARLES O’BRIEN) 3.55: SOMETHING SWEET – EW – (DEREK MCGRATH (7)/ROGER […]
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Super Sunday – but did we learn anything new?
93 minutes into the final game of the 2011/’12 Premier League season, Martin Tyler uttered the immortal words “I swear you’ll never see anything like this ever again”. Oh but we did Marty. Yesterday. At the same venue, involving the same team. It wasn’t after 93 minutes, and it was Ilkay Gundogan rather than Sergio […]
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Selections for Roscommon – May 23rd 2022
4.30: SCHIELE (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 5.00: LASMUIGH – EW – (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 5.30: FASTMAN – EW – (CILLIAN MCCONNELL (4)*/JOHN MCCONNELL) 6.00: SPASIBA (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 6.30: ROSCARBERY (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 7.00: FORGETMENOTBLUE – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 7.30: BLACK HAWK EAGLE (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE)
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Oh Hurling, don’t ever change!
David Dunne, Gareth Ghee, Mickey Cunniffe, Eamon Devlin and Gerry Keegan all share a common bond. Yet few outside of their realm will have even heard of them. They either are, or have been, the most recognisable hurlers in Louth, Longford, Roscommon, Tyrone and Kildare respectively throughout my lifetime. They undoubtedly have contemporaries in every […]